$30 is a budget video card, not $150. For $30, I have a 2xAGP card that does 1600x1200 and has 8 megs of RAM. No, it doesn't do 3D, but then again, neither does KDE. What's the point?
Besides, if you're going to get a $150 video card, it's not you're going to find a lot of Linux games that support all of it's graphics capabilities.
Devices like this have been around for years, and consistently make the 'Top 10 Worst Gadgets of the Year' for one reason or another. Are we to believe that just because the screenshots show it running Quake, that it will do better than the rest?
Isn't that where OS/2 failed? If we want programs for Linux, the best thing to do is to petition companies to release them. Otherwise, companies just say, "Well, we'll only release a Windows product because Linux can run it anyway." Then you end up with more Windows products selling, and less Linux products. Remember, the Windows versions probably won't support all the features available on Linux.
we have people who read the first 5 letters of the article (A-p-p-l-e) and respond with...
"Why does this crap OS get so much coverage?"
We also have people who look at the first 5 letters and see a name that they have depended on for twenty years. There's no sense in changing your name just because you want to appeal to nerds, especially when dozens of Fortune 500 companies and school systems already trust you.
Sure, FreeBSD/Mach sounds cool to us nerds, but do you honestly think that it will do well with school systems? Do you think that Pepsi would have sold as well had it been called Carbonated Water?
Doesn't GNU stand for GNU's Not UNIX? Then why are we basing the purity of MacOS-X based on its lack of GNU programs? Is this the new standard now, for all UNIX systems to come with gcc? Does this mean that Windows *with* a GNU compiler is more of a UNIX than Solaris *without* the GNU compiler?
The original intent of computing technology was to solve math equations that would take forever to figure out by hand. Not so your mom can have a pretty GUI and play solitaire.
Score: -5, Posted by complete idiot. You loser. More people have died from Christianity than from Communism. Yet Christian companies like Wal*Mart do well in America. What's your explanation for that?
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$30 is a budget video card, not $150. For $30, I have a 2xAGP card that does 1600x1200 and has 8 megs of RAM. No, it doesn't do 3D, but then again, neither does KDE. What's the point?
Besides, if you're going to get a $150 video card, it's not you're going to find a lot of Linux games that support all of it's graphics capabilities.
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Devices like this have been around for years, and consistently make the 'Top 10 Worst Gadgets of the Year' for one reason or another. Are we to believe that just because the screenshots show it running Quake, that it will do better than the rest?
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Isn't that where OS/2 failed? If we want programs for Linux, the best thing to do is to petition companies to release them. Otherwise, companies just say, "Well, we'll only release a Windows product because Linux can run it anyway." Then you end up with more Windows products selling, and less Linux products. Remember, the Windows versions probably won't support all the features available on Linux.
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No, I believe that I am Moderator.
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we have people who read the first 5 letters of the article (A-p-p-l-e) and respond with...
"Why does this crap OS get so much coverage?"
We also have people who look at the first 5 letters and see a name that they have depended on for twenty years. There's no sense in changing your name just because you want to appeal to nerds, especially when dozens of Fortune 500 companies and school systems already trust you.
Sure, FreeBSD/Mach sounds cool to us nerds, but do you honestly think that it will do well with school systems? Do you think that Pepsi would have sold as well had it been called Carbonated Water?
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Doesn't GNU stand for GNU's Not UNIX? Then why are we basing the purity of MacOS-X based on its lack of GNU programs? Is this the new standard now, for all UNIX systems to come with gcc? Does this mean that Windows *with* a GNU compiler is more of a UNIX than Solaris *without* the GNU compiler?
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Yes.
Score: 5, Informative.
The original intent of computing technology was to solve math equations that would take forever to figure out by hand. Not so your mom can have a pretty GUI and play solitaire.
Score: -5, Posted by complete idiot. You loser. More people have died from Christianity than from Communism. Yet Christian companies like Wal*Mart do well in America. What's your explanation for that?